heterozygote

English Thesaurus

1. (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring (noun.body)

hypernym	:	fertilized ovum, zygote,
definition	:	(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) (noun.body)

domain category	:	genetic science, genetics,
definition	:	the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition)